mp3 takes on a new meaning
p2pnet.net Clothing News (ahem):- France Telecom is working hard at Raver Wearable Displays – that’s to say shirts or shorts or anything else with flexible integrated colour screens which use Bluetooth links so animations, or whatever, can be sent by MMS to other users with the same gear.
Now German clothiers have come up with jackets that warble while you walk.
“A new jacket from Rosner GmbH & Co, a German clothing firm, incorporates a 128-megabyte MP3 player that is controlled through cloth buttons on the left sleeve,” says phillyburbs.com here. “Headphones are built into the collar.”
“The jacket also has a hands-free cell phone microphone tucked into the collar, which works with phones on the Bluetooth short-range wireless standard. A tiny electronic module containing the music player and the battery, which the company says is good for up to eight hours per charge, can be slipped out so the jacket can be washed.
“Rosner and its electronics partner, German computer chip maker Infineon Technologies AG, said the limited-edition garment is ‘geared toward technologically progressive, fashion-conscious men..”
At $725 a go, it could be a very limited edition.
On the other hand ……..
July 26th, 2004 at 7:22 pm
How about this? I put my 40 GB Creative Jukebx Zen Xtra into my pocket, slip on a class of 2005 tshirt (high class fashion, right ?), don some headphones and hit the play button. $725 could get me about 750 GB in external hard drive space. Guess what I’d be using that for
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